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Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut

Product Description: Readers may be shocked to discover that America's most provocative (and conservative) satirist, P. J. O'Rourke, was at one time a raving pinko, with scars on his formerly bleeding heart to prove it. In Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut, O'Rourke chronicles the remarkable trajectory that took him from the lighthearted fun of the revolutionary barricades to the serious business of the nineteenth hole...read more

By P. J. O'Rourke

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9781447218913 | Pan Macmillan, January 5, 2012, cover price $25.35 | About this edition: Readers may be shocked to discover that America's most provocative (and conservative) satirist, P.

9780871136534, titled "Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut" | Atlantic Monthly Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Presents essays by the conservative political humorist, from his days as a member of the counter culture in the 1970s to an essay on the Republican control of Congress published in the 'American Spectator' in 1995

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9780788712913 | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, December 1, 1997), cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Readers may be shocked to discover that America's most provocative (and conservative) satirist, P.

9780786110834 | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $56.95

Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut: 25 Years of P.J. O'Rourke

An anthology of twenty-five years of writing, collected for the first time, by the nation's best-selling satirist--author of Parliament of Whores--shows his transition from hippie to neo-conservative. Simultaneous.

By P. J. O'Rourke

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9780679447788 | Random House, October 1, 1995, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Presents an anthology of twenty-five years of the conservative political humorist's essays.

Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut: Twenty-Five Years of P.J. O'Rourke

By P. J. O'Rourke

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9780871136091 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, August 1, 1995, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Presents essays by the conservative political humorist, from his days as a member of the counter-culture in the 1970s to an essay on the Republican control of Congress published in the 'American Spectator' in 1995

All the Trouble in the World

Product Description: The political humourist turns his attention to fashionable worries, death and the end of the world. Opening with "One Week of Worrying", he then takes each worry and examines it. He questions overpopulation, famine, the environment and "Helpless Victims: If Meat is Murder, are Eggs Rape?...read more

By P. J. O'Rourke

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9780786108732 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 1, 1995), cover price $56.95 | About this edition: The political humourist turns his attention to fashionable worries, death and the end of the world.

9780679437420 | Abridged edition (Random House, October 1, 1994), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Offers a satirical view of the world's worries, comparing overpopulation in Bangladesh and in California; multiculturalism in higher education and in Yugoslavia, and other issues.

All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death

From the author of 'Give War a Chance' and 'Parliament of Whores', this book offers P.J. O'Rourke's view of all the trouble in the world - but with the goal of answering some tough questions.

By P. J. O'Rourke

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9780330331777 | New edition (Pan Macmillan, November 10, 1995), cover price $14.20 | About this edition: From the author of 'Give War a Chance' and 'Parliament of Whores', this book offers P.

All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

In a national best-seller, the right-wing humorist skewers the liberal media's fashionable concerns, traversing the globe to reveal the absurdities behind such problems as overpopulation, pollution, and ethnic hatred. Reprint.

By P. J. O'Rourke

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9780871135803 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Offers a satirical view of the world's worries, comparing overpopulation in Bangladesh and in California, multiculturalism in higher education and in Yugoslavia, and other issues

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9780871136114 | Reprint edition (Atlantic Monthly Pr, September 1, 1995), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In a national best-seller, the right-wing humorist skewers the liberal media's fashionable concerns, traversing the globe to reveal the absurdities behind such problems as overpopulation, pollution, and ethnic hatred.

The Arrogance Cycle: Think You Can't Lose, Think Again: What Every Investor Needs to Know to Protect Their Assets from the Next Big Bubble

Product Description: What is the arrogance cycle? We’ve just lived through it. As market bubbles build, our confidence level rises (dis)proportionately. Everyone wants in on the action. We want to believe Wall Street, and once we do, the inevitable happens...read more

By Edward Claflin (contributor), Michael K. Farr and P. J. O'Rourke (foreword by)

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9780762764358 | Lyons Pr, September 1, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: What is the arrogance cycle?

The Baby Boom

By P. J. O'Rourke

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9781611855739, titled "Baby Boom" | Gardners Books, March 6, 2014, cover price $21.80

The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way (And It Wasn't My Fault) (And I'll Never Do It Again)

Product Description: P.J. OâRourke began writing funny things in 1960s Âundergroundâ newspapers, became editor-in-chief of National Lampoon, then spent 20 years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly as the worldâs only trouble spot humorist, going to wars, riots, rebellions, and other ÂHolidays in Hellâ in more than 40 countries...read more

By P. J. O'Rourke

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9780802121974, titled "The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way And It Wasn't My Fault And I'll Never Do It Again" | 1 edition (Atlantic Monthly Pr, January 7, 2014), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: With his typical wit and keen analysis, O'Rourke looks at the way the post-war generation somehow came of age by never quite growing up and somehow created a better society by turning society upside down.

Paperback:

9780802122902, titled "The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way And It Wasn't My Fault And I'll Never Do It Again" | Grove Pr, November 11, 2014, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: P.

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9781491508435, titled "The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way And It Wasn't My Fault And I'll Never Do It Again" | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, June 3, 2014), cover price $19.99

9781491508442, titled "The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way And It Wasn't My Fault And I'll Never Do It Again" | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, June 3, 2014), cover price $9.99

The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way... and It Wasn't My Fault... and I'll Never Do It Again, Library Edition

Product Description: Unabridged Fiction 7 compact discs/ 8 hours

By P. J. O'Rourke

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9781491508459, titled "The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way And It Wasn't My Fault And I'll Never Do It Again: Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, June 3, 2014), cover price $52.97 | About this edition: Unabridged Fiction 7 compact discs/ 8 hours

The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig

The author of Give War a Chance offers a hilarious guide to domestic life, covering the arts of cooking, cleaning, and housekeeping for people who do not know how to do any of these things and who refuse to learn. Original.

By P. J. O'Rourke

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9780871134899 | Revised edition (Atlantic Monthly Pr, April 1, 1993), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Describes the tasks that bachelors must perform to maintain a household, including tricking other people into cleaning for them, turning the cat into a sweeper, and others

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9780871136862 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Describes the tasks that bachelors must perform to maintain a household, including tricking other people into cleaning for them, turning the cat into a sweeper, and others

9780330331753 | Pan Macmillan, December 3, 1993, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Looks at cooking, cleaning, and housekeeping for people who don't know how to do any of those things and aren't about to learn.

9780671617462 | Pocket Books, April 1, 1987, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A tongue-in-cheek survival guide for single people reveals the quintessential secrets of no-fuss housekeeping

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9780679422464 | Random House, April 1, 1993, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author of Parliament of Whores describes the tasks that bachelors must perform to maintain a household, including tricking other people into cleaning for them, turning the cat into a sweeper, and others.

Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs from the New Yorker

By P. J. O'Rourke (foreword by)

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9781608195503 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, October 11, 2011, cover price $22.00

Don't Vote: It Just Encourages the Bastards

Product Description: Put the country's big, fat political ass on a diet. Lose that drooping deficit. Slim those spreading entitlement programs. Firm up that flabby pair of butt cheeks which are the Senate and the House.Having had a lot of fun with what politicians do, P...read more

By P. J. O'Rourke

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Hardcover:

9780857892720 | Signed edition (Atlantic Books, November 1, 2010), cover price $27.95

Paperback:

9780802145437, titled "Don't Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards" | Grove Pr, September 13, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Put the country's big, fat political ass on a diet.

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9781441885531 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 21, 2010), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Red State.

9781441885555 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, September 21, 2010), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Red State.

Don't Vote: It Just Encourages the Bastards: Library Edition

By Christopher Lane (narrator) and P. J. O'Rourke

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9781441885562, titled "Don't Vote: It Just Encourages the Bastards, Library Edition" | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, September 21, 2011), cover price $39.97

9781441885548 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, September 21, 2010), cover price $59.97

The Dreaded Feast: Writers on Enduring the Holidays

By P. J. O'Rourke (introduced by)

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9780810982659 | Abrams Image, October 1, 2009, cover price $15.95

Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-bending

Product Description: "Driving Like Crazy" chronicles P. J. O'Rourke's thirty-year-long love affair with cars - combining his classic pieces with new, previously unpublished work, it is an inimitably humorous and pleasurable celebration of cars, speed, and the open road...read more

By P. J. O'Rourke

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9781848870796 | Atlantic Books, September 1, 2009, cover price $30.10 | About this edition: "Driving Like Crazy" chronicles P.

Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-bending Celebrating America As It 's Suppose to Be - with and Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Every

Product Description: A New York Times bestselling author and Americaâs preeminent political satirist, P. J. OâRourke also has another side to himâa gear-loose gearhead, automotive devotee, and terrifying driver. Son and grandson of car dealers in Ohio, P...read more

By Christopher Lane (narrator) and P. J. O'Rourke

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9781423396741 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, June 1, 2009), cover price $39.97 | About this edition: A New York Times bestselling author and Americaâs preeminent political satirist, P.

Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending Celebrating America the Way It's Suppoed to Be-With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Esoalade in Every

By Christopher Lane (narrator) and P. J. O'Rourke

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9781423396727 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, June 1, 2009), cover price $74.97 | About this edition: A New York Times bestselling author and Americaâs preeminent political satirist, P.

Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-bending Celebrating America the Way It's Suppose to Be- With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Ever

Product Description: Driving Like Crazy celebrates cars and author P. J. O’Rourke’s love for them, while chronicling the golden age of the automobile in America. O’Rourke takes us on a whirlwind tour of the world’s most scenic and bumpiest roads in trouble-laden cross-country treks, from a 1978 Florida-to-California escapade in a 1956 special four-door Buick sedan to a 1983 thousand-mile effort across Mexico in the Baja 1000 to a trek through Kyrgyzstan in 2006 on the back of a Soviet army surplus six-wheel-drive truck...read more

By Christopher Lane (narrator) and P. J. O'Rourke

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9781423396734 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, June 1, 2009), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Driving Like Crazy celebrates cars and author P.

Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-bending, Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed to Be-With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Eve

By Christopher Lane (narrator) and P. J. O'Rourke

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9781441885593 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, October 5, 2010), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A New York Times bestselling author and Americaâs preeminent political satirist, P.

Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed to Be-With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Ever

By Christopher Lane (narrator) and P. J. O'Rourke

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9781423396710 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, June 1, 2009), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: A New York Times bestselling author and Americaâs preeminent political satirist, P.

Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending, Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed To Be -- With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in

Product Description: Driving Like Crazy celebrates cars and author P. J. OâRourkeâs love for them, while chronicling the golden age of the automobile in America. OâRourke takes us on a whirlwind tour of the worldâs most scenic and bumpiest roads in trouble-laden cross-country treks, from a 1978 Florida-to-California escapade in a 1956 special four-door Buick sedan to a 1983 thousand-mile effort across Mexico in the Baja 1000 to a trek through Kyrgyzstan in 2006 on the back of a Soviet army surplus six-wheel-drive truck...read more

By P. J. O'Rourke

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9780802144799, titled "Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending, Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed To Be-With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Eve" | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, May 11, 2010), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Driving Like Crazy celebrates cars and author P.

Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hellbending, Celebrating America the way It's Supposed To Be -With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Eve

By P. J. O'Rourke

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Hardcover:

9780802118837 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, June 9, 2009, cover price $24.00

Eat the Rich

Product Description: America's most famous satirist is back with his latest New York Times best-seller and 1998 Notable Book of the Year, Eat the Rich is a hilarious and provocative look at economics.

By P. J. O'Rourke

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Hardcover:

9780871137197 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The political satirist traverses the world, exploring the power of money, ruminating on the world's varieties of capitalism and socialism, and offering his own primer on economics

Paperback:

9781447272175 | Pan Macmillan, September 11, 2014, cover price $25.35 | About this edition: America's most famous satirist is back with his latest New York Times best-seller and 1998 Notable Book of the Year, Eat the Rich is a hilarious and provocative look at economics.

9780871137609 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The political satirist traverses the world, exploring the power of money, ruminating on the world's varieties of capitalism and socialism, and offering his own primer on economics

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9780375404825 | Abridged edition (Random House, September 1, 1998), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The political satirist traverses the world, exploring the power of money, ruminating on the world's varieties of capitalism and socialism, and offering his own primer on economics.

The Enemies List

Compiled with the help of readers of The American Spectator an acerbic blacklist of some of the most disliked people of the 1990s includes such varied individuals as Sting, Gore Vidal, William Kuntsler, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, and Peter, Paul, and Mary. Original. 100,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.

By P. J. O'Rourke (editor)

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9780871136329 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: An acerbic blacklist of some of the most disliked people of the 1990s includes Sting, Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, and Ralph Nader

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